Last week, we spent a fair amount of time looking at nonfiction text structures, something that my students "sort of" knew. I ...

This was one bizarre book!  But I loved it!  Think Lord of the Flies  meets Holes at Alcatraz.    When I handed this book off to my studen...

I love read-aloud time in my classroom.  It's one of my favorite things to do.  This is time for kids to sit back and listen to good ...

This book won the Newbery Award last year, and so I knew it was going to be good.  After all, lots of people, who make more time to read g...

"I just don't like reading all that much," he said, as he put another book back on the shelf. We'd talked about books...

How do you accommodate the needs of many different learners in your ELA class?  This year, there seems to be a greater distance between my s...

I'm a huge fan of Jordan Sonnenblick, whom I've met once or twice.  He's such a nice guy.  And he gets middle schoolers, having ...